Marcin Kortylewski PhD

Dr. Kortylewski is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Cancer Immunotherapeutics and Tumor immunology, Beckman Research Institute at City of Hope (Duarte, CA). He received his Ph.D. in molecular biology in 1999 from the University School of Medical Sciences in Poznan (Poland). He completed two postdoctoral fellowships: in cancer biology (1999-2002) at the Institute of Biochemistry (Aachen, Germany) and in tumor immunology (2002-2005) at H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center (Tampa, FL). In addition to his STOP CANCER Award, Dr. Kortylewski is the recipient of the Margaret E. Early Medical Research Trust Award (2012) and the ThinkCure Foundation Award (2011).